環海 異聞 五 文化 4

Kankai ibun, [1807], volume 5 = Description and travel of circumnavigation of seas, [1807], volume 5 = 環海 異聞 五 文化 4. Volume five of a manuscript by Gentaku Ōtsuki and Kōkyō Shimura who drew from four Japanese fishermen the story of their voyage around the world during repeated interviews. The Kankai Ibun is an account of their journey when they were sent off-course en route to the capital, Edo. The fishermen were rescued by a Russian ship and taken to late 18th / early 19th century Europe and, most especially, Russia.; The cargo ship, Wakamiyamaru, left from the port of Ishimaki in Sendai-han, today’s Miyagi Prefecture, in Japan carrying rice and lumber with 16 crew members for Edo, today’s Tokyo, on November 27th, 1793. Shipwrecked and drifted in the Pacific Ocean for half a year, they finally landed in one of the islands of the Andreanof Islands, a part of the Aleutian Islands on May 10th, 1794. They were transferred to Irkutsk by Russians where they stayed until the spring of 1803. They were then called in by Alexander I of Russia to St. Petersburg where they stayed from April to June in 1803, and from where they started their journey back home. They were included in the Rezanov mission on the first Russian global circumnavigation by a ship Nadezhda. It took them 16 months to reach the port of Nagasaki, Japan in September, 1804 since they left in June, 1803. Of the sixteen, five crewmen got on board. Four returned home in Sendai; one, who had become an interpreter, returned to Russia with Rezanov.

《环海异闻》（Kankai Ibun）1807年第5卷，亦称作《环球航海记述与旅行》（Description and travel of circumnavigation of seas）1807年第5卷，对应日文著述《環海異聞五 文化4》。本书为大槻玄泽（Gentaku Ōtsuki）与志筑孝恭（Kōkyō Shimura）所著手稿的第五卷，二人通过多次访谈四名日本渔民，记录下其环球航行经历。《环海异闻》记述了这些渔民在前往江户（今日本东京）途中偏离航线后的旅程。渔民们先遭俄罗斯船只救起，随后被带至18世纪末至19世纪初的欧洲，尤以在俄罗斯境内停留时间最久。

1793年11月27日，货船若宫丸（Wakamiyamaru）从日本仙台藩石卷港出发，搭载大米与木材，载有16名船员，目的地为江户（今日本东京）。1794年5月10日，船只失事并在太平洋漂流半年后，众人最终在隶属于阿留申群岛（Aleutian Islands）的安德烈亚诺夫群岛（Andreanof Islands）其中一座岛屿登陆。俄国人将他们转移至伊尔库茨克，众人在此停留至1803年春。随后他们被俄罗斯沙皇亚历山大一世召见前往圣彼得堡，并于1803年4月至6月期间逗留于此，自此开启归国旅程。他们参与了雷扎诺夫使团（Rezanov mission），搭乘“希望号”（Nadezhda）完成俄罗斯首次环球航行。众人于1803年6月出发，历经16个月后，于1804年9月抵达日本长崎港。16名船员中仅有5人登船参与此次航行，其中4人最终返回仙台；另有1人因担任译员，随雷扎诺夫一同返回了俄罗斯。